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Returning Grazing Land to Nature Helps More than Wolves PA G E 4 Wild Canids Among Us: Can We Coexist? PA G E 8 Pros and Cons: The 2017 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan PA G E 1 2
WOLF EXPERTS
FROM 19
COUNTRIES
SHARING 100
PRESENTATIONS
Concurrent, Poster,
Plenary and Keynote
WOLVES IN A
CHANGING WORLD
OCTOBER 11–14, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS, MN USA
THE LAST GREAT WOLF RESTORATION – COLORADO
A presentation on the concept of reintroducing wolves to Colorado,
BANQUET focusing on attributes and challenges.
Attributes • Prey base
KEYNOTE may include: • Amount of public land available
• Varying eco-regions (high deserts, mountains, etc.)
MIKE PHILLIPS
Challenges include • Livestock grazing interests/public grazing allotments
factors such as: • Conflicting positions among special-interest
groups, politicians and USFWS
• Legislatively sanctioned, nationwide delisting
of wolves as endangered
PLENARY SESSIONS
PANELS Isle Royale Red Wolves, Eastern Wolves and
A panel of four will present a other Canis Mixes in Eastern
Wolves of the World summary of ups and downs, and North America: Taxonomic validity
Speakers from regions around the and challenges to recovery
changing conditions affecting wolves
world, including Asia, Europe, and trophic systems over 56-plus A panel of five will discuss topics
Canada, the Canadian Arctic and years of research on Isle Royale. related to eastern canids, including
the United States and Mexico, will They will also address the ways in implications for the U.S. Fish and
cover topics that include progress which reintroduction of wolves Wildlife Service if science reorganizes
of recovery in each region, politics would benefit a future Isle Royale North American canid species and
in place to ensure a viable popula- ecosystem, given the uncertainties of declares the red wolf synonymous
tion, issues and problems that future contributions by ice bridges, with eastern wolves, or declares
may need to be addressed. weather patterns, random population it a variant of gray wolves.
events, herbivory and other factors
Ellesmere that influence this island system. SPECIAL PRESENTATION
A series of speakers will discuss the
Wolf Depredation Control on Livestock 20-Plus Years of Wolves in Yellowstone
wolves inhabiting Ellesmere Island
and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, A panel of experts representing Doug Smith, project leader for
focusing on observations at dens various viewpoints will discuss wolf the Wolf Restoration Project in
and other aspects of pack life, and depredation conflict management. Yellowstone and Emmy Award
including a historical summary of Agencies, field agents, a wolf winning cinematographer Bob Landis
Dr. L. David Mech’s two-decade study. advocate and a livestock producer will present the history of wolves
will discuss key problems and in Yellowstone since their
Michipicoten Island the latest news, and find areas of reintroduction in 1995.
An overview of geography, species agreement and disagreement.
history, human disturbances DEBATE
and recent studies of caribou,
Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan
wolves and beaver.
A debate between Mike Phillips,
who will discuss and challenge the
current Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan
and Jim deVos, who will defend it.
Gray wolves in Mongolia: changing Risk effects of wolves on free-ranging
attitudes and current research livestock: Can prey-gut microbiome
PRESENTER Uuganbayar Ganbold, predict stress response in
biologist and anti-poaching protection predator–prey interactions?
manager, Hustai Nuruu National Park, PRESENTER Azzurra Valerio,
Mongolia ashington State University,
W
Olympia, Washington
Gray wolves in Estonia: an overview
of population genetics and Adaptive use of nonlethal strategies for
hybridization with domestic dogs minimizing wolf–livestock conflict
PRESENTER Liivi Plumer, PRESENTER Suzanne Stone,
Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology Northwest Senior Field Representative,
and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Defenders of Wildlife, Boise, Idaho
Harjumaa, Estonia
SAMPLING OF Quantifying the diet of the Alexander
Challenges in wolf management
in Croatia
PRESENTATIONS Archipelago wolf in southeast
Alaska using molecular methods
PRESENTER Djuro Huber,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
PRESENTER Aimee Massey, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon;
Alaska Department of Fish and Game The future of wolf poisoning
programs in Canada
Through the eyes of a wolf: quantifying PRESENTER Hannah Barron,
and classifying the complexities of olf Awareness, Inc.,
W
facial signaling in wolves Golder, British Columbia, Canada
PRESENTER Elana Hobkirk,
Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
AUSTRALIA BRAZIL CROATIA ESTONIA JAPAN
AUSTRIA CANADA DENMARK INDIA MONGOLIA
NORWAY POLAND SLOVAKIA SWEDEN UNITED KINGDOM
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Functional response of wolves to human REGISTRATION
development across boreal Canada Registration includes 3 breakfasts, 2 lunches, a
PRESENTER Marco Musiani, reception, all daily break refreshments and materials.
Department of Biological Sciences,
Faculty of Science and Faculty of Veterinary Rates go up Sept. 1
Medicine, University of Calgary,
To register or for more information:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Registration fees
Wolf tracks at the doorstep:
A 1-year cycle of wolf behavior close
International Wolf Center Member. . . . $424
to houses in Scandinavia After Sept. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450
PRESENTER Barbara Zimmermann,
Non-member. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $474 > Not a member?
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Student registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $299
An 18-year spatial and temporal
analysis of colonizing gray wolves
(Canis lupus) in disjunct population
Dietary niche overlap between Winter predation patterns of wolves
PRESENTER Theresa Simpson, wolves, coyotes, and hybrids in in northwestern Wyoming
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, a 3-species hybrid zone PRESENTER Susannah Woodruff,
La Crosse, Wisconsin
PRESENTER John Benson, Regional research coordinator,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Shooting wolves: photographs and
Lincoln, Nebraska
the reconfiguration of the wolf
Humans and their role in shaping
in nonfiction for children
Ecology of the Indian gray wolf the ecological functions of wolves
PRESENTER Debra Mitts-Smith, (Canis lupus pallipes) in the Suleman PRESENTER Thomas Newsome,
School of Information Sciences faculty Range, South Waziristan, Pakistan University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
member at the University of Illinois
PRESENTER Abdul Hamid,
epartment of Wildlife Management,
D Challenging the wildlife decision-
Wolves at Our Door: results of 4-year
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, making infrastructure
Minnesota education program initiative Rawalpindi, Pakistan PRESENTER Walter Medwid,
PRESENTER Misi Stine,
Vermont Wildlife Coalition, Newport, Vermont
Project Coordinator, Wolves at our Door, Competition on two legs and four:
International Wolf Center, Impacts of wolf-cougar co-occurrence on
Minneapolis, Minnesota Scent-marking and biometeorology:
resource selection and survival across An analysis of behavior across canid
an anthropogenic gradient species Gray Wolf (Canis lupus),
Are livestock-guarding dogs a viable tool
PRESENTER Lauren Satterfield, Red Wolf (Canis rufus), and
for preventing damages in open-range
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Coyote (Canis latrans)
livestock? A case study from Portugal
PRESENTER Hannah Jones,
PRESENTER Francisco Petrucci-Fonseco,
Individuality in habitat use of
Groupo Lobo, Lisbon, Portugal ardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas
H
Scandinavian wolves in relation to
anthropogenic infrastructure
Patterns of niche partitioning and overlap Do novel scavenging opportunities
PRESENTER David Carricondo-Sanches, or risk of interspecific killing by
between sympatric wolves
AUSTRALIA and snow
BRAZIL InlandCROATIA ESTONIA
Norway University of Applied Sciences, JAPAN
wolves influence occupancy and activity
leopards in the mountains of central Asia Koppang,Norway
PRESENTER Shannon Kachel,
patterns of smaller carnivores?
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington PRESENTER David Keiter,
AUSTRIA CANADA DENMARK INDIA University of Nebraska,
MONGOLIA
School of Natural Resources
NORWAY POLAND SLOVAKIA SWEDEN UNITED KINGDOM
PAKISTAN POTUGAL SPAIN SWITZERLAND USA
A LO O K B E YO N D
Rebuild the Red Wolf Recovery Effort All the evidence suggests that the Red
Wolf Recovery Area is, in fact, one of the
state’s richest hunting locales.
By Christian Hunt Yet, what is ultimately at issue here
is not ecology or annual harvests. The
T he world mourned in March as the
last male northern white rhino,
Sudan, passed away.
Guarded continuously by armed
patrols, Sudan was euthanized and laid
If we’re to prevent another human
failure of this kind, we must be inspired
by it to speak not only for globally imper-
iled species, but for those in our own
backyards. For North Carolinians, that
real issue before us is one of commit-
ment. The FWS is entrusted with pro-
tecting and recovering our nation’s most
imperiled wildlife.
In the 1980s, critics thought the red
to rest as the last male of its kind—a clan means raising our voices on behalf of wolf was a lost cause. Back then, accord-
of rhino that lived for millions of years, the red wolf. ing to FWS, the species was already “99
withstanding every challenge except Like the northern white rhino, the miles down a 100-mile-long road to
humanity. With only two females remain- red wolf is the rarest of its kind. Having extinction,” and to some, the recovery
ing, the northern white rhino is staring lost 99.7 percent of its range, today’s red effort seemed hopeless. After only two
down the barrel of certain extinction wolf clings to life in one small, eastern decades, however, heroic FWS biolo-
and represents, as Sudan’s caretakers North Carolina holdout—and even that gists proved the skeptics wrong and
put it, “a cautionary tale for humanity.” is in danger of being lost forever. Last accomplished the impossible; with 151
year, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wild wolves, as well as a strong captive
(FWS) proposed shrinking what remains population, the species was placed on
of the red wolf’s territory by about 90 the road to long-term recovery.
percent and forcing most of the last Beginning in the early 2010s,
Adobe Sotck/ Jean-Edouard Rozey
wolves into zoos. though, FWS experienced dramatic
This would spell extinction for shifts within its senior leadership.
North Carolina’s red wolf in the Rather than leaving the program in the
wild and waste decades of hands of recovery biologists, agency
conservation progress and administrators in Atlanta, under
cutting-edge research. A pressure from the state of North
small handful of anti- Carolina (supporting documents below)
wolf landowners have brought the program to its knees, ending
applauded this calamitous essential management efforts that had
proposal. In their view, the sustained wolves in the wild. The red
red wolf’s disappearance would wolf population predictably collapsed,
benefit private landowners in the recov- and today fewer than 45 likely remain
ery area. The science, however, suggests in the wild with only 23 known wolves
the opposite. on the landscape.
Since the red wolf makes regular If the agency moves forward with
meals of nest predators like raccoons, it’s its latest plan, the wild recovery effort
believed that turkey and quail popula- will be drastically curtailed, and the
tions are higher in the Red Wolf Recovery red wolf could become nothing more
Area than elsewhere. The red wolf also than a zoo curiosity—a prospect that, for
preys upon invasive nutria that other- virtually all North Carolinians, is simply
wise damage crops and, as the larger of unacceptable.
the two species, the red wolves, when Last year’s public comment period on
in healthy numbers, will suppress coy- FWS-proposed changes to the recovery
otes. As for deer, the annual harvest has program generated more than 55,000
increased in the Red Wolf Recovery Area comments from all 50 states, 99.8
for the past 30 years. percent of which were opposed to the
30 Fall 2018 w w w. w o l f . o r g
FWS plan. Only 25 comments were Just as it took courage to pull the
Supporting Documentation
anti-wolf; only 10 backed FWS. Within red wolf from the jaws of extinction, it
the recovery area itself, 68.4 percent of will again take courage for the Fish and
land-owners voiced their support for the Wildlife Service to honor the public trust. North Carolina Wildlife Resources
species. Scientists have publicly urged It will also require the voices of people Commission. 2015.
the agency to reconsider, warning that who understand and believe in the FWS Resolution Requesting that the United
its plan is not supported by science and mission of protecting wildlife. Without States Fish and Wildlife Service Declare
is a sure-fire recipe for extinction. support from the public, we can expect the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) Extinct in
In eastern North Carolina, we are that the species will, like the northern the Wild and Terminate the Red Wolf
blessed with an abundance of wildlife. white rhino, become a memory of our Reintroduction Program in Beaufort,
Home to black bears, alligators, huge wilder past. n Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington
flocks of game birds, deer and turkey, Counties, North Carolina
it is a wildlife paradise. There are few Christian Hunt is the Southeast program http://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/
comparable places left on the East Coast. associate for Defenders of Wildlife, About/documents/2015-01-29-
a national conservation organization NCWRC-Resolution-Asking-USFWS-
It is also the last holdout of the red wolf’s
founded in 1947 and focused on wildlife Declare-Red-Wolf-Extinct-in-Wild-
historical territory, which once spread and habitat conservation and the
throughout the Southeast. As a proud Terminate-Program.pdf
safeguarding of biodiversity. Based in
North Carolinian, I find that inspiring. Charlotte, NC, he is responsible for
We need only drive 30 minutes from promoting the organization’s red wolf
the beach to discover, hidden among campaign efforts through grassroots
the pine forests and swamps, the world’s outreach, community organizing
most endangered wolf. and communications.
Adobe Sotck/ Mark Kostich
Red wolf pups—offspring of the rarest wolves of their kind—now appear only in eastern North Carolina. A recent proposal by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would shrink the red wolf’s territory and force the last ones into zoos, effectively assuring their extinction.
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